From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We are exploring the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: After losing four pregnancies, Jennie Agg set out to unravel the science of miscarriage. Then, a few months in, she found out she was pregnant again – just as the coronavirus pandemic hit. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:02.0	The Guardian Archive Long Read.
0:22.0	Hi, I'm Jenny Ag.
0:24.0	I'm a journalist and author and in 2020, I wrote
0:29.8	a Guardian Long Read called My Four Miss Carriages,
0:33.8	Why Is Losing A Pregnancy So Shrouded in Mystery.
0:37.8	I wrote this particular article based on my own experience of recurrent
0:43.8	miscarriage. It kind of built really throughout that process,
0:47.8	I was discovering more and more things that we didn't know about
0:51.8	miscarriage. And really, I think this piece was me trying to make sense
0:55.8	of why we didn't know more about it and lots of things that we
0:59.8	perhaps perceive about miscarriage that actually
1:03.8	aren't really the whole truth or a kind of accurate
1:07.8	representation of what that's actually like to go through. I wanted to
1:11.8	explore that question really of, can miscarriage be prevented?
1:15.8	Why aren't we further along with treatments for people
1:19.8	like me who go through miscarriage multiple times?
1:21.8	It had to be a long read really because there's so much
1:25.8	in there in terms of the science and the kind of
1:29.8	cultural attitudes of pregnancy and pregnancy loss.
1:33.8	Since I wrote this piece back in 2020,
1:37.8	there have been some positive improvements,
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